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ONE SLIGHT HITCH Is Presented by Special Arrangement with Black Humor, Inc Kurt Beattie Carlo Scandiuzzi Artistic Director Executive Director ACT – A Contemporary Theatre presents Beginning June 8, 2012 • Opening Night June 14, 2012 Cast (in alphabetical order) Katherine Grant-Suttie P.B. Coleman *Marianne Owen Delia Coleman *Kirsten Potter Melanie Coleman Kimberley Sustad Courtney Coleman *Shawn Telford Ryan John Ulman Harper *R. Hamilton Wright Doc Coleman Creative Team Joe Grifasi Director Robert Dahlstrom Scenic Designer Susan Hilferty Costume Co-Designer Catherine Hunt Costume Co-Designer Rick Paulsen Lighting Designer Brendan Patrick Hogan Sound Designer *JR Welden Stage Manager Ruth Eitemiller Production Assistant Running Time: This performance runs 1 hour and 35 minutes with intermission. Production Sponsor: Seasonal support provided by: A Contemporary Theatre Foundation The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Eulalie Bloedel Schneider Artists Fund The John Graham Foundation *Members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. ONE SLIGHT HITCH is presented by special arrangement with Black Humor, Inc. ONE SLIGHT HITCH was produced by the Williamstown Theater Festival Jenny Gersten, Artistic Director on July 6, 2011. Audience members are cordially reminded to silence all electronic devices. All forms of photography and the use of recording devices are strictly prohibited. Please do not walk on the stage before, during, or after the show. encoreartsprograms.com A-1 Letter For by Kurt Beattie One Slight Hitch is straight comedy, a vibrant sortie into human vulnerability and our everyday madness. It’s a special pleasure to have Lewis Black’s play at little known today but will be on display during ACT. Nationally known for his take-no-prisoners ACT’s Pinter Festival, are as light and fun as the best political comedy, Lewis actually began his career of Sid Caesar’s shows, or the confections of Beyond as a graduate playwriting student at the Yale the Fringe. Other comic whizzes, like Kaufman and School of Drama. He has an unusual gift for the Hart and Shakespeare ultimately end on a generous creation of laughter in a variety of forms: stand- note, which is where One Slight Hitch crosses the up, commentary, and theatre, both as an actor and finish line. Kindness and love are possible in the writer. One Slight Hitch is straight comedy, a vibrant world, especially when you’re able to finally know sortie into human vulnerability and our everyday that a certain someone is the right one for you. madness. Good comic writers always find ways (Before that, luckily for us audience members, the to show us how our familiar selves are actually ride is pure hell.) quite incoherent, unaware, and driven by personal obsessions about which we are often clueless. When It’s also a pleasure to have Joe Grifasi at ACT to love and sex and family come into the picture, as direct One Slight Hitch. One of New York’s most they always must, our anxieties and needs become esteemed character actors in both stage and film, the rich soil from which hilarity emerges. and a great comic performer, Joe brings a unique talent and knowledge to the table essential to Some great comic turns are redemptive; others creating the entertaining madness that a good are decidedly not. Christopher Durang’s plays, for evening at the theatre should contain. Together with instance, surf between the sidesplittingly funny and Lewis Black and ACT’s wonderful cast and staff, I am ultimately redemptive, to the nightmare from which looking forward with relish to being in the audience. there is no escape. Alan Ayckbourn often strides the divide too, delivering all the classic pleasures of farce through the truth and pathos of real human suffering. Harold Pinter also wore both hats. He wrote very dark plays, many of which have sublimely funny moments, and his comic sketches, which are Artistic Director A-2 ACT THEATRE N Jul 20 – Aug 26 Land o Man’s umb Waiter D The © John Ulman © John Ulman O More than a month of ld Times Plays, Readings, Films, Discussions, and Other Celebrations Celebration of the influential and outspoken British writer. © Chris Bennion © John Ulman June 8, 22, 28 THE SEAGULL PROJECT July 10 Live Music Month at ACT Start your summer off right with Live Music The Great Soul of Russia Month, featuring The Love Markets, Cordaviva, Reading series from members of and Carrie Clark and The Lonesome Lovers. The Seagull Project: July is “The Golden Age of Russian Literature” AZEOTROPE THE HANSBERRY PROJECT June 14 – 30 July 17 – 22 Jesus Hopped the A Train Represent! During their time at Rikers Island, two inmates argue The 2nd Annual REPRESENT!: A Multicultural about guilt, innocence, and higher powers. Muscular Playwrights’ Festival featuring eSe Teatro, and urban, Jesus Hopped the A Train takes a closer SIS Productions, Pratidhwani, and the looks at what it means to be a ‘good person’. Hansberry Project. RADIAL THEATER PROJECT June 25 August 2 – 25 Construction Zone 99 Layoffs New play reading series: June features Radial Theater Project presents their second The House That Jack Built by James Still. production, 99 Layoffs by Vincent Delaney, a new romantic comedy about love in the time of pink slips. Photo: John Ulman acttheatre.org | (206) 292-7676 | 700 Union Street, Seattle See it all with an ACTPass! encoreartsprograms.com A-3 Director’s Notes by Joe Grifasi “The horror! The horror!” (Kurtz’s last words - Apocalypse Now) Unlike those of us who suffer for their art, Lewis Black suffers from it. (He often experiences excruciating artistic stigmata on the right side of the brain. S’true!) So when he called on me twelve years ago to help him remount his play One Slight Hitch I suppose I took pity on his painful condition. Everyone has a dear friend they just can’t say no to and my friend Lewis has never been one of them. I have no problem with that word when it comes to Lewis. (I usually say no before the request gets to his gums.) It must have been pity, for his useless suffering at the hands of playwriting, a notoriously masochistic art form. Why masochistic you ask? Because nobody ever gets it right—nobody—ever. (If you don’t believe me read the New York Times). First of all the word ‘play’ has no business in the same building as the ordeal of playwriting. On top of which playwriting produces this terrible addiction (and sometimes a rash) brought on by the vivid delusion that you can actually get it right—it’s lethal! If you don’t believe me I invite you to sit with Lewis while watching one of his shows. A near-death experience—six nights a week—twice on matinee days. That’s entertainment. As for the director of a play, well that enterprise has its own unique level of persecution. And that’s because a director’s job, when properly done, is simply to become irrelevant—no longer useful... like chlorophyll. If you’ve been successful as a director you’re expected to leave the theater unconnected, immaterial, unimportant, inconsequential, extraneous, not pertinent, peripheral, beside the point, insignificant, and trivial. You are deposited in the street, with your thesaurus, to seek out similar experiences again and again. That, sadly, is also entertainment. So sit back, relax, laugh, and enjoy the painful collaboration of two masochistic and deluded sexagenarian theater addicts who are, frankly, having the time of their lives getting you to laugh. We’ll be in the back...counting. Joe Grifasi A-4 ACT THEATRE Mark Linn-Baker, Marianne Owen, William Converse-Roberts Back to the Future “What if I had actually shown up?” Playwright Lewis Black on the true story that inspired One Slight Hitch, with director Joe Grifasi, leading lady Marianne Owen, and ACT’s Literary Manager Anita Montgomery. Anita Montgomery: Could you three connect the dots on your Yale which meant we had a license to build or destroy our careers. experience for me? Marianne, you were three years behind Lewis? MO: I have some photos of some of my cabaret work. (laughs) Two. Weren’t you third year when I came in first Marianne Owen: JG: I’m scared. year Lew? MO: Well you should be. They smell totally musty cause they’ve Lewis Black: Yeah, I was third year. been down in my basement for about thirty years. But I do have MO: And who else was in that playwriting class? some pretty interesting young photos of Mark (Linn-Baker) and Bill Roberts and myself and Tony Shalhoub and that whole cabaret LB: Ted Tally and Edward Gold and Bob Sandburg and Peter Blank…. season. That time I did 1940s Radio Hour. Did we do that together? MO: It was a pretty impressive class, I gotta say. Joe, when did you LB: get outta Dodge? MO: I don’t think so. LB: He was actually held back. (laughs) He just hung around in the AM: One Slight Hitch is kind of a new/old play, right? hallways. LB: Yeah, I started writing it in probably ’80, ’81, I can’t be sure. Joe Grifasi: I had already gotten my Yale degree, and I stayed in Then I think I was done with it about ’84. The first production was New Haven because I had no money to get out and no career to fairly successful. It had Boyd Gaines in its cast and young Yeardley speak of. So I was panhandling on the corner, near the worst coffee Smith, who went on to become one of the voices of The Simpsons. shop in the world. I finally got out in ’75.
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